Chapter 33 - 33. Trump Card.

"Jessie are you all right?" Katherine ran into the room, after Jason left.

"I don't know?" Jessie shook her head. "I have no idea what's going on? I can't understand Jason."

"You and everyone else dear." Katherine shook her head. "Although I must say I've not seen him this interested in someone else's life." She said.

"What does that mean?" Jessie asked.

"I don't know" She shrugged. "Come here let me see that leg."

Jessie scooted to where Katherine sat down on the rug and placed her left feet in her lap. Katherine sprayed a numbing spray and massaged it a bit before she started to tie it up with a bandage.

"So how do you know Jason?" Jessie asked.

"Let's just say I met him through Paul. Paul and I kind of grew up together but it's complicated. I met Jason when we were still kids, the two of them used to tease me back then. Jason was always mean and Paul used to be the one that would console me and protect me from Jason." She smiled at the memory.

"We didn't live in the city back then, we met with Jason when his family came to the island for vacation. He and Paul hit it off immediately but he wasn't very friendly with me, at first though. I just coined it as him having a bad personality, and over the years I've been proved right." She said.

"So you're an heiress as well?" Jessie asked.

"Oh no, I do have rich parents and I grew up in style but I have no inheritance." Katherine shrugged.

"Why? Did you defy your parents like I did mine?" Jessie laughed.

"No. I'm adopted."

"So? What does that have to do with anything?" Jessie asked looking very confused.

"Wow, you're the first person I've said that too, that hasn't looked at me with either contempt or pity." Katherine said.

"Why would I do that? Why can't you have an inheritance?"

"My mother married the man I grew up to call father, my step father. But she died when I was little then he remarried. At first everything was nice and good, until my step mom gave birth. It was horrible for me, I ran away one day and ended up lost in the woods. That's where I met Paul and we became friends. Being friends with him made my life at home bearable at the very least. Then my dad died and I was kicked out like some trash." Katherine said sadly.

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea." Jessie said moving closer to rub Katherine's back.

"It's okay, you didn't know and bedside I'm not ashamed of anything. I'm proud of how far I've come." She said.

"You are pretty brave Kate. I can call you that right?" Jessie smiled.

"Of course. What about you? Why aren't you in the line of inheritance? If I remembered correctly you are a heiress too." Katherine said.

"Well there was a lot of resistance when I started as a trainee, my parents wanted me to do well in school and take over some part of the family business. But I was never good in school and when I decided to become a trainee after a commercial I did for my family's company. My dad banished me and told me I was not going to receive a single penny from him anymore."

"And you still did it?" Katherine asked in disbelief.

"Well there's not really much to get, I have three older siblings. Two brothers and a sister." Jessie shrugged. "Besides didn't I make it? I admit it was hard but luckily it didn't take long for me to start earning my own money." She said with a triumphant smile.

"Well I guess, we're two women who succeeded in life regardless of the hardships we faced." Katherine laughed and she and Jessie settled by the foot of the bed. Resting their backs against it.

Jessie scoffed. "I hardly went through anything, you had to endure a rough childhood. I can't compare with that."

"It okay, I had Paul. He really was there for me." Katherine smiled.

"You're in love with him aren't you." Jessie stated.

"What?! No.... ofcourse not" Katherine blurted out.

Jessie laughed and shook her head, "okay... whatever you say. But if I was you I would definitely have feelings for the perfect man that saved me from my harsh reality and especially when I was at a vulnerable age."

Katherine didn't reply she just rested her head on the edge of the bed and sighed.

"We should probably go down." She said after a while of comfortable silence.

"We should." Jessie agreed. "I have to apologise to Jason."

"Did you say something?" Katherine asked.

"No, not really... well maybe. But that's not it, I just feel bad about how we left things." She said.

"Hmmm... okay." Katherine help her to get up and supported her as they walked down the stairs.

Jason looked up the instant he heard them come down. Getting up he went and picked up Jessie and brought her down carrying her straight to the couch.

Paul also stood up when Katherine approached, they both looked like hurting puppies.

They was a stretch of very awkward silence at first, Paul stared at Katherine and she stared at anywhere but him. Jason and Jessie stared only at each other.

"I'm sorry." The two said simultaneously breaking the silence.

"Why are you sorry?" Jason asked walking forward to sit beside Jessie.

"I said some hurtful things, and I yelled at you in front of your employees. I'm sorry." She said.

Jason sighed "how are you so considerate?"

She shrugged. "I'm not considerate, I'm passionate. So why are you sorry?"

"Well I'm sorry that I punched Chase and he had to quit." Jason said.

Jessie smile dropped and she glared at him for a moment and she wanted to speak Jason cut her off. "Before you explode at me, I didn't tell him to quit. He said it would be too uncomfortable working here after that."

Jessie gave him a pointed look. "You don't believe me? Ask Paul he was here." Jason pointed at his friend whose gaze left Katherine at the mention of his name.

"He's telling the truth, that's what happened." Paul nodded.

Jessie looked from Paul to Jason and sighed. "Fine, but on one condition I'm letting him go."

Jason's brow perked up.

"You need to put a television in this apartment and I need a cell phone and oh yeah a laptop as well. If I am going to be here I need entertainment." She said.

"Done."

"So what's the plan for the long run?" Katherine asked.

"Well I'm going to expose Patricia no matter what it takes. I have to clear my name." Jessie said running her hands through her hair.

"How do you plan on doing that?" Paul asked.

"Well I'm not sure... I need to find out what exactly happened that night." She said.

"And what the police has on you." Jason added.

"Why would she need that?" Katherine asked.

"She knows to know the evidence and how they got it in order to nullify it." Paul said.

"But it's not as if the police would hand it over of I ask nicely" Jessie sighed.

"Paul don't you have connections in the force?" Katherine asked.

"My connections are very high up, the kind of people that handle cases that threaten on a national level." He said.

"So you can't help?" Jessie asked.

"I don't know, I will try but I make no promises." Paul replied.

"Well I'll have to try another angle in the mean time." She said.

"How so?" Jason asked.

"Destroy Patricia image, just as she destroyed mine. Although I'll have to meet with my manager for that." She rubbed her chin.

"Why?"

"A while ago I had him gather dirt on Patricia, it kind of a fail safe. I wasn't planning on using it or anything but I felt good threatening her with it." She smiled.

"What kind of dirt?" Paul asked.

"Well she's a loose woman, I have hundreds of pictures of her leaving hotels and clubs with different men. I have evidence to proof she bribed he casting director to get her first gig, stuff like that. To make fans crazy." Jessie shrugged.

"Why do you have that?" Katherine asked.

"It's just something we did, I'm sure she has dirt like that on me too. Although I must admit I am very careful."

"So you also meet different men?" Jason asked.

"No! I wish actually. I have schedules from hell, I don't even have time for myself how can I meet men." She pouted.

"Anyways let's not get off track... "Jason said grabbing his ringing phone.

He looked up at Paul when he saw the caller.

"It's George Lee." He said, walking to a separate room to answer the call.

"Whose that?" Katherine asked.

"That's Patricia uncle, the person that runs the auction." Paul said. "Come to think of it, that's the guy that probably sold you to Jason."

Jessie eyes widened. "So the owner of that human trafficking ring is Patricia uncle?"

"His not exactly the owner, it belongs to the family." Paul answered.

Jessie face broke into a wide grin. She just found the trump card.

"Why in goodness name are you smiling?"